Screenwriting for India's film industry with Megha Mittal

Megha Mittal is a writer and AWS solutions architect from Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. She’s written short films and screenplays for India’s exploding film industry, and is currently hard at work on the second draft of a screenplay called Dimpy, in which a young boy imagines he has magical powers. We managed to steal a moment of her post-Wordloops writing time to ask her about her writing practice. What’s your background? Have you always loved writing, how’d you get into screenwriting? I’ve always loved writing as a hobby. When I was a kid, I wrote a lot of poetry and when my teachers discovered that I wrote well, from class seven onwards I became the unofficial playwright in the school. In college I realized that blogging was free, so I started writing blogs about poetry and comics. Th